An Inspiring Story

Every day we learn new things whether it is in direct such as at school or from life learning from our mistakes. Every little thing we do we learn something new from it, for example just by reading the fable about the rabbit and the turtle, we learn that slow and steady wins the race. Life is full of ups and downs, it might start with an up or a down. In the case of Mohed Altrad, it was a down that continued until he was about a teen when he realized he could do something with his life.

Mohed Altrad is a Syrian man that was upbrought by his grandmother as the rest of his family had gone where they can rest in peace. This young boy had no clue when he was born or how old he was. Mohed was not sent to school at all, in fact, he was working as a shepherd at that young age. It was his choice to walk 10 miles in the boiling sand to peek at a classroom through a hole in a wall. He was then welcomed into the classroom and was the smartest and most intelligent of those in his class. Due to his richer classmates' jealousy, they wanted to get rid of him and decided to through him in a hole in the hot desert. When he escaped, he decided to work even harder than he already was and got a scholarship to go study abroad. Of course, that scholarship gave him hope and motivation to keep going. As he arrived in Paris, France, this is when his luck had changed from going bottom-rock down to soaring up in the sky. He still had to work as a part-time job while doing his studies, to make a living and pay for his college tuition fees. It was time to let his hard work pay off, therefore he had decided to buy a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. He then made a great fortune out of it and had been building his route upwards to someone he would have never imagined to be.

In Mohed Altrad's case, there are many themes that go along with his story as anything is possible. For example, we can also say that never give up keep going as Mohed kept going no matter what it took until he became a multi-millionaire. If you believe in something you must fight for it and eventually you will become it. As the youtube channel that uploaded this video says: "I can. I will."